Scality SCOP – $100,000 Incentive Fund for Open Source Software Developers

Full press release and details on scop.scality.com.

We’re opening the cloud drop by drop! Our goal with this open source library is to promote the use of object based cloud storage and simplify the job of application developers in the process.

We are trying to address the most common user concerns associated with cloud storage (Freedom/Openness, Performance, Security and Visibility) at the client library level so that application developer using Scality Droplet can spend more time focusing on their own user experience instead.

The second part of that strategy is to reward open source developers with our Scality Open Source Program (SCOP) by offering bounties for applications that we feel are a great match for the cloud. Total bounty pot is $100,000, divided into $1000 to $10000 individual app bounties. Look here for the list of applications.

You can also submit your own application idea, if we like it, we’ll create a bounty for it so an open source developer can step up and you basically just outsourced the development of your dream application for free 🙂 Apply here while there’s still money left!

• Download Scality droplet.
• Read the detailed SCOP rules.
• Propose your own app bounty

Ping me on twitter @GiorgioRegni

Scale out application development

First post! That warrants an introduction:

I am Giorgio Regni, CTO of Scality, a start-up with the goal of solving the very real and pressing problem of storing unstructured content for large service providers like web hosters, cable companies, ISPs and web2.0 type companies.

We have developed an unique distributed object store technology based on the chord peer to peer addressing algorithm to handle petabytes of data with online replication, tiering and multi data center fault tolerance on top of inexpensive generic x86 hardware. It's actually taking full production traffic today at Telenet, a Belgian cable & internet service provider, serving millions of Zimbra email users.

Prior to that, as VP Engineering of Bizanga, I developed a massively scalable anti-abuse layer for email service providers that is today fighting spam and switching more than 1 billion emails a day across the globe at well known locations like Comcast, Cox and Charter in the US.

This blog is about sharing ideas on next generation software platforms to support the exponentially growing needs of today's applications. Exabytes of data, billions of users, millions of request per seconds, the singularity is near, it's mind boggling and we're only at the beginning!

As the likes of facebook, youtube, twitter and their increasing capacity & performance race have shown, there needs to be changes down to the very core of application architectures and I find this entire subject fascinating. Current solutions all fall into two camps:

• Safely reuse old idea and incrementally improve on them: Virtual machines, SAN, NAS, …

• Brand new projects starting from scratch, promising a lot but lacking in maturity, interoperability and real world operation feedback

My focus is on very large scale applications enabling services for millions of users. I truly believe a complete next generation application stack to satisfy such gigantic scalability requirements is the way to go, even if it involves rethinking a lot of layers in the process (object storage, distributed metadata, stateless everything, etc…).

My goal is to share news, observations, ideas, vision as well as code. I strongly value feedback and comments, especially from people who are in disagreement!.

Thanks for reading that far!

I can be reached on twitter @GiorgioRegni and linkedin http://fr.linkedin.com/in/giorgioregni.

Cheers

Giorgio